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My old friend Bunny sent me these video stills with the following note (he also sent me a quicktime version of the video and I love it a lot, but I'm not going to post it until I get off my butt and ask permission):
Here are my two cents on background. I made this video last year. it is called white rabbit.
"Or, to go back from the simplified illustration to general relativity: A point in spacetime (an event) is defined only by what physically happens at it, not by its location according to some special set of coordinates. The physics does not depend on what lattice you choose."
"It is not the object used but rather the use of the object" - DW Winnicott
"I'm hunting wabbit. huh.huh.huh.huh." - E. Fudd
Donna Kane has posted some great photos from our Muskwa-Kechika adventure on her site, including a painting by fellow participant Deryk Houston that totally rocks. I stared at that view from the top of that mountain, but it is a whole new experience, and stunning, to see it again through Deryk's eyes. I can't wait to see the real painting.
My friends James and Laurie sent me this link to "Make Love, not Warcraft," saying, "it is the best South Park Ever." I think they are right.
Speaking of Warcraft, I logged on to Second Life for the first time and probably last time this week. I didn't want to spend any money, which makes it pretty boring. Also my computer is a tad slow and so I was mostly wandering around in grey slabs of un-textured architecture trying to imagine how lovely the world would be if all the pretty colours and lighting effects were rendering properly. I amused myself by creating a fat guy my own age for an avatar. All the cute skinny people reacted pretty strongly, and I got lots of cat-calls and overheard lots of rude/puzzled comments. That was fun for awhile, but not fun enough.
US terror bill is a good name for it.
Above are attempts to draw states of background independence by myself and participants at the workshop "Full on Gall" organised by Pat Sullivan at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre yesterday afternoon. Not too many of us were brave enough to tackle the background independence problem, but at my activity table we also drew lots of pictures of neutrinos and of the universe. I will post more of these most excellent artworks in the days to come. Gordon Hicks had a very cool and puzzling plotter for making drawings that was programmed like a slightly bonkers etch-a-sketch. Rebecca Diederichs engineered a lushous interactive mural with overhead projectors and found thing-a-ma-bobs. There was also a black box collaborative sculpture experiment and of course, the ever popular Schrödinger's cat balloon. Art MacDonald from SNO lab had a table with great images and information about the project. It was super fun.
What do you like better...background dependence, or background independence?